![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Story of Shoes, A (Part II)
0728 PA8883 Story of Shoes, A
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| Build Your Vocabulary - Coronet Instructional Films
Dramatizes the story of a father, who, after finding himself at a loss for words at a public meeting, follows his son's lead and starts a campaign of vocabulary improvement.
Keywords: Literacy; Words; Self-improvement
Downloads: 11,473
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |  |
| Speech: Stage Fright and What to Do About It - Centron Productions
Expressionistic film on dealing with fear of public speaking, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas.
Keywords: Communication: Speech; Psychology
Downloads: 5,892
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| Man to Man - Handy (Jam) Organization
Salesmanship and psychology instruction for gun dealers.
Keywords: Sales: Training; Hunting
Downloads: 6,590
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Cooking: Terms and What They Mean - Centron Productions
A young wife learns common cooking terms so as to better take care of her new husband.
Keywords: Home economics: Cooking; Gender roles; Marriage
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| Education for Excellence (Part I)
0722 PA8847 Education for Excellence
Keywords: need meta
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| Leave It to Roll-Oh - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.
Keywords: Robotics; Gender roles; Futurism
Downloads: 30,377
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| Case of Spring Fever, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Gilbert Willoughby is punished for voicing Luddite ideas (complaining about pesky springs) by "Coily," an obnoxious, animated spring who subjects him to the hassles of a springless world.
Keywords: Physics: Springs; Animation; Technology: Critiques
Downloads: 20,609
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Destination Earth - Sutherland (John) Productions
In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great.
Keywords: Economics; Oil industry; Advertising: Animation
Downloads: 139,153
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| Habit Patterns - Knickerbocker Productions
"Goofus and Gallant"-style film on the misadventures of a teenage girl who is a victim of her own bad habits, with a harrowing and patronizing narration.
Keywords: Social guidance; Gender roles; Psychology
Downloads: 33,108
Average rating:  (37 reviews) |  |
| One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety - Interlude Films
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules. This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton. Script and Direction: Dale Jennings. Photography: Max Hutto. Art Direction: Ralph Hulett. With Dick Hutto, Janice Powell, Lucie Hagens, Ralph Hulett, Clyde L. Johnson, Dave Hembree, Colleen Hutto, Charles Hagens, Kevin Lindsay, Dan Whitehead, Don Moody, Diane Chambers, S...
Keywords: Bicycles; Safety: Bicycle; Animals: Apes
Downloads: 100,238
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| Visit to Santa, A - Williams (Clem) Films
Santa Claus rides in a parade and walks kids through a relentless department-store Christmas display. Filmed in Pittsburgh.
Keywords: Christmas; Santa Claus; Consumerism
Downloads: 51,282
Average rating: (49 reviews) |  |
| My Japan - U.S. Treasury Department
Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.
Keywords: World War II: Japan; Propaganda; World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 246,775
Average rating: (93 reviews) |  |
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